New-York tribune., 1887-05-15
ART NEWS AND COMMENTS.
TIE WEEK IN ART CIRCLES.

NOTES OF THE ExHIBITIoNs-NEW PAiNiiNoS AMI
ENGRAvINGS
The sixty second annual exhibition OF LIDO ,y
closed last evening with sales amoun,ihe " .b,s
$50 900. The improvement in quality sho"n ~ a
exhibition has been the feature of the art season
and has received substantial recognition lu spite oi
the fact that this exhibition the smallest ior
years the sales have been larger than since 1929 o
1854 About $4,000 single admission ticke,s na'
been sold at the door. The mutual congratuations Nv
Wednesdays Academy meeting were eyidehuy a"P''
justified
Last year 125 pictures were sold Tor @zIooo, ahi
the attendance smaller than at the reoeo o 900
bition In 1855 122 pictures were sold tor @Zoooo,
In 1884 the amount OF the sales was at hrss
as $3o, 800 but owing to the failure oil one VI Wv"
purchasers it became necessary to deduct @o'oVo o
this to ta In 1888 the receipts from the SAFE Oh Po
exceeded $40, 900 and nearly the same aunoun'
was realized in 1882. The largest SUN ever pau luz
pictures at an Academy exhibition was in 1881, wneh
l2C paintings brought S42, $685. In 1851 tne saioS
OF pictures amounted to only SZo,Ooo' Inns yo"i,
therefore, the change to comparatively smai, anu
well-ch0sen exhibition has proved imnedately aus"n
tageous although q temporary taliingon Was iooA0o
for.
The need of better accommodations for the students
at the Academ, to which attention has been called IN
THE TRIBUNE, emphasized IN Mr. huntington
address on Wednesday, aud it is to be hoped thae
action may be taken at once. Scme change lor the
better should be made this summer. Those VINO "eto
present at Friday evenings reception and noted the
number of students and then inspected the class
rooms must have realized the necessity for more spa
cious and better-lighted class rooms. The exhibition
of drawings the antique and from life was strong
enough to show that the schools amply deserve al
possible encouragement. Exhibitions of TINS Klho
may possess extreme degree OF popular interest
but it hardly necessary insist upon their
aDco as illustrating the influences and tendencies Vi
home instruction in art and also showing the pos
sibtics of the pupils. Only small proporuou ~
these pupils will become professional artists Out .no
influence of progressive art school upon others heips
to spread right understanding OF art ana Is therefore
valuable 1t pleasant at last week exhlOton "
the enthusiasm of the students and the evidences
of earnest work in the drawings ana studes;
Another year there may be prizes more suostahtia
than the medals 1t is pity that the Art League Win
its admirable record and fresh effective instruction
cannot combine forces with the Academy and then
MAKE appeal for a substantial endowment
One of the associate Academicians elected on
Wednesday was elected several years ago, but then de-
clined the honor with perhaps needless emphasis MS
reelection certainly indicates anything Dut pety
spirit the part of the Academy. lie was one Oh .ne
founders OF the Society of American Artists winch
was then a needed protest against the Academy
liberality But under the present conditions IL IS not
strange to find the conviction growing among lar-
minded artists that more be accomplished ior
American art within the Academy than without
This will be the last week of the exhibition held by
the Society of American Artists at Yandells Gallery
Il n much to be regretted that some o the pictures IN
this exhibition like the portraits By Messrs Wyatt
Eaton and Brandegce. should not be seen Dy larger
portion OF the public. The exhibition has attracted
very little attention judging from the small NUMBER OF
visitors but the attendance should be larger III tue
last week Perhaps regular gallery visitors prefer
4 ,l,.fo, har
ia purely expermental. But such exhibition, ike
the displays at tie Art Students League, WHOM thls
strongly resembles may be OF service IN bringing oue
beginners althoua il is not encouraging TO compaIe
this with the admirable collections shown py tue
society previous to 1854.
If the Academy galleries can be rehung this week
the loan exhibition OF French paintings of which some
account has been given will be opened on Friday or
Saturday At the Prize Fund exhibit On 1t is reported
that the sales amount to about &l5,OOO.
The pictures sold at the Academy during the last
week were December Evening" Robert Kluth, S125
Peace and War;" X. T. Langdon, 800; Bay OF
Lerie e. c. GrswOli $7o Roses" FL F. Fenstsi, T5.
1850; General Grant" q. Campbell, and Inc
Critic" Richard Creelds, $500
Messrs Reichard g. Co. exhibit n new painting by
Detaille entitled I" In Tonquin" incident OF the
French warfare with the Tonquinese, q term which
may include both the Anamites and the Black
Flags or survivors of the TAPPING rebels The scene
"a depicted by the artist indicates pleasing disregard
of facts His landscape consists OF high hill with
heavily wooded valley and mountains in the distance
He therefore cannot reter to any OF the fighting near
the coast in the Sung ko Delta, nor around Hanoi,
for all this country consists almost entirely OF swamps
From Hanoi the French made campaigns against
Sontay in one direction and Bacninh ID another but
the latter town. near the Chinese frontier where they
enc ountered the Chinese troops, is surrounded by
marshes and the former Is not much better In snort
nearly all the lighting in Tonquin done in marshes
| and rice fields This would have been indicated In a
really characteristic picture. But Detae, apparently
too Indifferent to inform himself, Las painted scene
which may be truthful IS regards many other places
but certainly Is tase IN is local color as regards
| Tonquin His subject a French lying battery, q
light gun posted hilltop served BY hall dozen
| men one OF whom is falling back wounded into the
arms of a comrade, while another turns toward him
face wearing look OF horror. Several black heads
tied by their long halr dange from the limbs OF tree
near by. Curiously enough these heads approach the
| African type closely than the Mongoiian, and
| vet the Tonlunese although mixed race, are more
| Chinese than anything else The picture Is well
pnnted and exemp lilies the artists accuracy figure
work but it might almost as well be called scene IL
| the Ashantee war rs Il scene in Ionquln
| collection Of monotypes exhibited by Mr.. c. A
| Walker in the print-room Of khoedler ~ Co. shows
| one new departure, the use OF oil colors Ihere
| nothing especially novel IN the ordinary monotypt
process, that Is the working out OF picture upon
plate smeared with ink IRON hlch single impression
is taken This was illustrated at length by Mr.
Walker in an exhibition held few years ago. and De
tore then Mr.. w. NJ Chase and other artists haC
amused themselves with monotypes indeed, some us
of tho process may be old etching. At present
however, Mr.. Walker paints his picture in oil colon
upon his plate, avaing himself OF considerable lati
tnde In his methcd OF treatment and then takes al
impression while the pigments fresh. The resu
| have much delicacy OF color and often remarkable
Il, f.a nj
| gradations The influence OF Corot and OF Daubignl
has Affected the artists manner OF interpreting nature
but AS illustrations OF this process his picturea ar
clcyerly worked out aud interesting The best OF hi
black and white impressions is a head OF Daubigny.
The Boston Museum of Fine Arts has published
compact valuable descriptive catalogue o, its admir-
able collection of Crock and Roman casts. Tn